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Yep.  I love that he's a full-time member of the staff, and yes it should limit his role with other MLB teams but not with specific baseball players.
 
Guys like Dr. Lewis Yocum - who performed Bedard's surgery - are also contracted to teams (in Yocum's case, the Angels).  That didn't stop him from doing the surgery on Bedard.  I believe it's a team non-compete clause, but not an individual one.  He wouldn't be another team's physician, but he could be the physician for any individual player.  I would expect it to work that way for Dr. Elliott - any individual that wants to go train at his gym is free to do so, but only OUR team can use him on an organizational basis.
 
Which is phenomenal, by the way.  Dr. Elliott said in an article a couple of years ago that he wanted 24 minor leaguers to work with, to see if he can get 16 to 18 of em to the pros.  The minor leaguers he worked with before the Ms pay him a pro-rated sum on anything they make OVER $390k - in other words, if they don't make it to the pros they don't pay him a dime for his work.
 
I dunno what we're paying him, but he has absolute faith in his work, and I don't see ANY reason to doubt him.  And things should only get better as he gets a chance to work his way through our minor leagues on a year-by-year basis.
 
~G